The very moment when secrets are revealed, trust is lost. If you don’t want to lose trust, you must choose to deceive. Four years ago, Beth and Mattie’s world was turned upside down when their mother revealed a long-kept secret. Mattie’s secrets added to the betrayal Beth endured. She didn’t understand then, but Beth soon learns the motivation for secrets when she meets someone that may be the man of her dreams, yet is everyone else’s nightmare. If Beth listens to her family, it is a choice that will break her heart. But, if she chooses to follow her heart, it will be a treacherous decision and she may lose more than she ever thought possible. Is deception the only choice for Beth? Is he worth the risk?
In a family whose secrets are slowly being revealed, can keeping one more really hurt all that much? Mattie and Beth were twin sisters who shared everything - even their deepest, darkest secrets. They soon discover, however, that not everyone in their family has been so open with them. First they discover their mother has a secret. Soon, Mattie starts keeping secrets. When she disappears, Beth has overheard enough to know her secret, enough to possibly help find Mattie and bring her back to Riverside. But, Mattie always got what Beth wanted. Now, Beth could reveal what she knows and help find Mattie, or she could finally become the twin with all the attention. When the unthinkable happens, Beth is forced to share what she knows. But will it be too little, too late? Have they kept one secret too many?
He took the proud vixen as his prisoner and swore she would serve . . . She was his defiant captive. With her flame gold-hair and azure eyes, Skye Kinsdale was a prize beyond compare. Betrothed to a lord she'd never met, she set sail for America sworn to reject him on sight until the infamous pirate Silver Hawk seized her ship and banished all other men from her life. Burning with rage and passion, she was determined to destroy the arrogant buccaneer, to be free at any cost . . . He was her keeper . . . and her slave The black prince of the seas, he was feared by pirate and privateer alike. Silver Hawk vowed he would have the vixen, make her crave his savage embrace. She was his—by law of the sea. The man who commanded a Caribbean kingdom swore he would teach his wild temptress to love, to surrender to the lawless thrill of . . . A Pirates Pleasure.
Rediscover this classic tale of romance by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. The last thing Jade McClaine needs is more complications. So when former pro baseball star Jeff Martin slams into her car one morning, and then crashes into her life that afternoon—as the new coach for her son’s little league team—she’s beyond flustered. And the way Jeff looks at her doesn’t help. What the single mom does need is to make a sale on an amazing old Miami property. It’s the deal that could make or break her. And it just so happens that Jeff is looking for a new home… There’s just one problem: with all the time they’re spending together, she’s rapidly falling for someone who is bound to break her heart. Originally published in 1986. Look for Heather Graham’s next novel A PERFECT OBSESSION available soon from MIRA Books
When you live your life following your heart and refusing to listen to your head, there will be very few that understand your motives. Beth knows this all too well. She has never thought with her head in matters of the heart; she has always allowed her heart to guide her. It has gotten her into trouble in the past. A past filled with painful memories of Chris - a man she shouldn’t have loved. When he unexpectedly reenters her life, Beth must force herself to decide - does she betray her heart again or does she betray the man who once saved her?
In a family whose secrets are slowly being revealed, can keeping one more really hurt all that much? Mattie and Beth were twin sisters who shared everything - even their deepest, darkest secrets. They soon discover, however, that not everyone in their family has been so open with them. First they discover their mother has a secret. Soon, Mattie starts keeping secrets. When she disappears, Beth has overheard enough to know her secret, enough to possibly help find Mattie and bring her back to Riverside. But, Mattie always got what Beth wanted. Now, Beth could reveal what she knows and help find Mattie, or she could finally become the twin with all the attention. When the unthinkable happens, Beth is forced to share what she knows. But will it be too little, too late? Have they kept one secret too many?
The very moment when secrets are revealed, trust is lost. If you don’t want to lose trust, you must choose to deceive. Four years ago, Beth and Mattie’s world was turned upside down when their mother revealed a long-kept secret. Mattie’s secrets added to the betrayal Beth endured. She didn’t understand then, but Beth soon learns the motivation for secrets when she meets someone that may be the man of her dreams, yet is everyone else’s nightmare. If Beth listens to her family, it is a choice that will break her heart. But, if she chooses to follow her heart, it will be a treacherous decision and she may lose more than she ever thought possible. Is deception the only choice for Beth? Is he worth the risk?
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, opportunities for southern white women writers increased dramatically, bolstered by readers’ demands for southern stories in northern periodicals. Confined by magazine requirements and social expectations, writers often relied on regional settings and tropes to attract publishers and readers before publishing work in a collection. Selecting and ordering magazine stories for these collections was not arbitrary or dictated by editors, despite a male-dominated publishing industry. Instead, it allowed writers to privilege stories, or to contextualize a story by its proximity to other tales, as a form of social commentary. For Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Katherine Anne Porter—the authors featured in this book—publishing a volume of stories enabled them to construct a narrative framework of their own. Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers is as much about how stories are constructed as how they are told. The book examines correspondence, manuscripts, periodicals, and first editions of collections. Each collection’s textual history serves as a case study for changes in the periodical marketplace and demonstrates how writers negotiated this marketplace to publish stories and garner readership. The book also includes four tables, featuring collected stories’ arrangements and publication histories, and twenty-five illustrations, featuring periodical publications, unpublished letters, and manuscript fragments obtained from nine on-site and digital archives. Short story collections guide readers through a spatial experience, in which both individual stories and the ordering of those stories become a framework for interpreting meaning. Arranging Stories invites readings that complicate how we engage collected works.
The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Love, Terry McMillan's Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butler's Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women. The aims of this work are threefold: to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community.
Truckie Needed Mattie has bought a tiny house, intending to drive it across the country to land she's bought interstate. But Mattie doesn't take into account the fact that the tiny house is on the back of a truck, and she doesn't have her truck license. What to do? An ad in the local pub brings Ned and Jack into her life - two very eager and sexy young men who've been travelling around Australia and are more than happy to drive Mattie and her tiny house across the continent. They might be leaving Western Australia's deserts behind and heading to the chilly island state of Tasmania, where even in spring there is still snow on the mountains, but inside the tiny house, things are only heating up. PUBLISHER NOTE: Ménage à trois, M/F/M, Interracial. Anal sex, threesomes, oral sex. 34,400 words.
Emerging a free man from a volatile marriage, former major leaguer Jeff Martin meets Jade McClaine, a woman trying to recover from memories of a lost love, and together they find a special love that must overcome the fear of trust. Reissue.
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